Keep the rain at bay with sunny scenes from JPG's Spring/Summer 2012 collection. Hawaiian postcard prints and tropical birds decorate umbrellas by French accessories house par excellence Guy De Jean, which has been keeping Parisians dry and chic since 1920.

Never a follower, seminal designer and demagogue Jean Paul Gaultier has been honing an irreverent and mesmerizing aesthetic for nearly 40 years. Known for mixing men’s and womenswear as well as for sending unconventional models down the runway, the French firebrand bothers less with submitting to the norms of fashion and more with inventing sophisticated, surprising designs that do justice to his above-and-beyond creative vision.